Jobber vs Yardbook
This is the comparison people run when the budget decides it. Yardbook has a genuinely free tier, Jobber does not. Almost everything below comes out of that one difference.
How they compare
| Jobber | Yardbook | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | From $29/mo | Free tier, paid upgrades |
| Built for | Home service generally | Lawn care and landscaping |
| Mobile app | Polished, widely praised | Functional, rougher |
| Reporting | Basic | Basic |
| Support | Phone, chat, help centre | Thinner |
What Jobber does better
Polish. The app especially. Crews actually use Jobber without being chased, and with field software that is the whole game. Support is a phone line with a person on the end of it, not a forum thread.
What Yardbook does better
It is free. For a one or two person landscaping outfit counting every dollar, that is not a small thing, and the scheduling and invoicing at the heart of it genuinely work.
Which one to pick
Starting out, no budget, mowing lawns: Yardbook. Move when it starts to hurt. But the moment you are paying a crew to sit in the software, go Jobber, because adoption is the cost that actually matters.
Neither of them chases the review. Trophy Jar does, on both.
Trophy Jar connects to Jobber and to Yardbook. Whichever one you land on, the job gets marked complete and the customer gets a text or an email asking for a Google review. The $9 plan includes 100 texts a month, the $19 plan 1,000, all from your own local number. If you are a US business we handle the 10DLC brand and campaign registration.